Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-30 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 29 August 2013 09:42, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: comparable to the European Environment Agency's Urban Atlas. The slides are here. I think there are enough details in the methodology for anyone to You might have warned me about the size of the document, so I downloaded it at off

Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-29 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 28 August 2013 23:15, Dudley Ibbett dudleyibb...@hotmail.com wrote: This would perhaps suggest they should be marked as ways with barrier=hedge and hedge=line_of_trees or perhaps just the latter. An alternative might be to use natural=tree_row which is defined in the wiki but the examples

Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-29 Thread sk53.osm
The entire landcover tag discussion on the wiki is a huge distraction,and not based on any objective criteria, let alone an attempt to see if what we have works. I, on the other hand, gave a paper at SotM-Eu in 2011 which showed that use of existing tags could provide a level of

Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-29 Thread Dudley Ibbett
is restricted to an area but it seems you can directly tag a way as scrub. Regards Dudley Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 06:30:23 +0100 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc. From: sk53@gmail.com To: dudleyibb...@hotmail.com CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org I don't think

Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-28 Thread Dudley Ibbett
Hi I was wondering if anyone has been mapping these? Quite often I come across streams and rivers where there are dense lines of trees along the river banks. Occasional I find lines of trees which seem to be remnant hedgerows where the shrubs have been removed. Looking on line it would

Re: [Talk-GB] Lines of Trees along river banks etc.

2013-08-28 Thread sk53.osm
I don't think these are hedgerows at all. They are really relict river gallery woodland (usually *Salicion albae,* NVChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_and_scrub_communities_in_the_British_National_Vegetation_Classification_systemW6) and I would expect are mainly Willows with the odd Poplar